USPTO Patents Application 09784102

As a below named inventor, I HEREBY DECLARE:

THAT my residence, post office address, and citizenship are as stated below next to my

name;

THAT I believe I am the original, first, and sole inventor (if only one inventor is named
below) or an original, first, and joint inventor (if plural inventors are named below or in an
attached Declaration) of the subject matter which is claimed and for which a patent is sought
on the invention entitled

LOUDSPEAKER DESIGN METHOD

(Attorney Docket No. 085874/0304)

the specification of which (check one)

is attached hereto.

X was filed on February 16, 2001 as United States Application
Number or PCT International Application Number 09/784,102 and
was amended on (if applicable).

THAT I do not know and do not believe that the same invention was ever known or
used by others in the United States of America, or was patented or described in any printed
publication in any country, before I (we) invented it;

THAT I do not know and do not believe that the same invention was patented or
described in any printed publication in any country, or in public use or on sale in the United
States of America, for more than one year prior to the filing date of this United States
application;

THAT I do not know and do not believe that the same invention was first patented or
made the subject of an inventor's certificate that issued in any country foreign to the United
States of America before the filing date of this United States application if the foreign
application was filed by me (us), or by my (our) legal representatives or assigns, more than
twelve months (six months for design patents) prior to the filing date of this United States
application;

THAT I have reviewed and understand the contents of the above-identified specification,
including the claim(s), as amended by any amendment specifically referred to above;

THAT I believe that the above-identified specification contains a written description of
the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise,
and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it
is most nearly connected, to make and use the invention, and sets forth the best mode
contemplated by me of carrying out the invention; and

THAT I acknowledge the duty to disclose to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office all
information known to me to be material to patentability as defined in Title 37, Code of Federal
Regulations, § 1 .56.

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I HEREBY CLAIM foreign priority benefits under Title 35, United States Code §1 19(a)-(d)
or § 365(b) of any foreign application(s) for patent or inventor's certificate, or §365(a) of any
PCT international application which designated at least one country other than the United States
of America, listed below and have also identified below any foreign application for patent or
inventor's certificate or of any PCT international application having a filing date before that of
the application on which priority is claimed.

Prior Foreign
Application Number

Country

Foreign Filing Date

Priority
Claimed?

0003883.6

United Kingdom

February 18, 2000

Yes

I HEREBY CLAIM the benefit under Title 35, United States Code § 1 19(e) of any United
States provisional application(s) listed below.

U.S. Provisional Application Number

Filing Date

60/183,326

February 18, 2000

I HEREBY CLAIM the benefit under Title 35, United States Code, §120 of any United
States application(s), or § 365(c) of any PCT international application designating the United
States of America, listed below and, insofar as the subject matter of each of the claims, of this
application is not disclosed in the prior United States or PCT International application in the
manner provided by the first paragraph of Title 35, United States Code, § 1 1 2, I acknowledge
the duty to disclose information which is material to patentability as defined in Title 37, Code of
Federal Regulations, § 1.56 which became available between the filing date of the prior
application and the national or PCT international filing date of this application.

U.S. Parent
Application Number

PCT Parent
Application Number

Parent
Filing Date

Parent
Patent Number

I HEREBY APPOINT the following registered attorneys and agents of the law firm of
FOLEY & LARDNER:

STEPHEN A. BENT

Reg.

No.

29,768

DAVID A. BLUMENTHAL

Reg.

No.

26,257

BETH A. BURROUS

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No.

35,087

ALAN I. CANTOR

Reg.

No.

28,163

WILLIAM T. ELLIS

Reg.

No.

26,874

JOHN J. FELDHAUS

Reg.

No.

28,822

MICHAEL D. KAMINSKI

Reg.

No.

32,904

LYLE K. KIMMS

Reg.

No.

34,079

KENNETH E. KROSIN

Reg.

No.

25,735

JOHNNY A. KUMAR

Reg.

No.

34,649

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ANDREW E. RAWLINS

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No.

34,702

BERNHARD D. SAXE

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No.

28,665

CHARLES F. SCHILL

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RICHARD L. SCHWAAB

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25,479

MICHELE M. SIMKIN

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No.

34,717

HAROLD C. WEGNER

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No.

25,258

to have full power to prosecute this application and any continuations, divisions, reissues, and
reexaminations thereof, to receive the patent, and to transact all business in the United States
Patent and Trademark Office connected therewith.

I request that all correspondence be directed to:

Alan I. Cantor

FOLEY & LARDNER

Washington Harbour

3000 K Street, N.W., Suite 500

Washington, D.C. 20007-5109

Telephone: (202) 672-5570
Facsimile: (202) 672-5399

I UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT the foregoing attorneys and agents appointed by me
to prosecute this application do not personally represent me or my legal interests, but instead
represent the interests of the legal owner(s) of the invention described in this application.

I FURTHER DECLARE THAT all statements made herem of my own knowledge are true,
and that all statements made on information and belief are believed to be true; and further that
these statements were made with the knowledge that willful false statements and the like so
made are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, under Section 1001 of Title 18 of the
United States Code, and that such willful false statements may jeopardize the validity of the
application or any patent issuing thereon.

Name of first inventor Nicholas P. R. HILL

Residence Cambridge, United Kingdom

Citizenship

Post Office Address

Inventor's signature
Date

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United Kingdom

The Flat, 206 Cherry Hinton Road,
Cambridge CB1 4 AW, United Kingdom

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Name of second inventor
Residence
..Citizenship

Post Office Address

Inventor's signature
Date

Vladimir GONTCHAROV

Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Russian

Flat 5
Hunti

Housq^ Williams Close, Brampton,

jgKjeshire PE28 4SR, United Kingdom

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